Spring breakers may have brought COVID-19 back to their communities, study says
Source: ABC News
As colleges and universities make decisions about returning to in-person classes this fall, they may be able to keep surrounding communities safe by discouraging student travel during college breaks.
That's the conclusion of new research that reveals what many had already suspected: Spring break travel may have fueled the spread of the coronavirus back in March, when the pandemic dramatically ramped up in the United States.
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Using the data, they were able to pinpoint which cell signals seemed to go "home" to college campuses. They then tracked changes in their location during time periods known to correlate with their respective university-sanctioned spring breaks, to evaluate where students traveled and how they got there.
In the weeks following spring break, many colleges saw a rise in the number of students testing positive for the novel coronavirus. In many of these schools, the annual spring break between the end of February and early March was found to roughly precede the cancellation of classes due to the coronavirus that rolled across the country beginning in late March.
Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Health/spring-breakers-brought-covid-19-back-communities-study/story?id=71409325&cid=clicksource_4380645_4_three_posts_card_hed
This is kind of "no shit Sherlock", but at least there's now hard data backing up what everyone knew would happen.
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Say it ain't so. 
